XMRig Based Anti-Spam / Rate Limiting
Web mining was tried before. The payoff per hash is too small, far less profitable than inserting ads onto a website.
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"The first professional #XMR Miner, pioneering XMR Mining!" - Bitmain
They're CPUs. They can just roll out a firmware update and be up and running again.
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[CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required
Anyone who's been in software development long enough should know that the majority of total rewrite projects fail. Like 99% of the time. Community members throwing money at this proposal might as well be burning their cash.
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